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About the Author
Paul van Lange has been a Professor of Social Psychology at the VU since 2000 (and Special Professor at Leiden University from 1999-2008). He has published articles on topics closely linked to trust and human cooperation in journals such as Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Bulletin. Craig D. Parks is Professor of Psychology at Washington State University. His research focuses on cooperation and noncooperation, and reaction to non-normative actors, in mixed-motive situations. energy companies in the Pacific Northwest on social psychological factors underlying resistance to energy conservation. Daniel Balliet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at the VU University at Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Dr. Balliet's research applies experimental methods and meta-analytic techniques to study cooperation and conflict resolution. His research has examined theoretical perspectives on trust, incentives, social values, and forgiveness. Dr. Balliet has published his research in top journals in Psychology and Political Science, including Psychological Bulletin, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Journal of Conflict Resolution. Mark Van Vugt is Professor of Evolution, Work and Organizational Psychology at the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at the VU University at Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His expertise is in evolutionary psychology, group dynamics, leadership, status, conflict and cooperation, and in applications of evolutionary psychology to societal issues such as business and management, environmental sustainability, water conservation, politics, war and peace. His publications have appeared in journals such as the American Psychologist, Proceedings of Royal Society-B, and Psychological Science. With various colleagues,Van Vugt has published several books, including a trade book entitled Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of Leadership (Published by Harper Business, 2010), and a textbook entitled Applying Social Psychology: From Problems to Solutions (Published by Sage, 2008). He served as Associate Editor for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and is a research fellow at University of Oxford.
Reviews
"We have seen a tremendous expansion of studies, both theoretical and empirical, of social dilemmas and related issues such as trust, cooperation, reciprocity, and pro-sociality in the last quarter of a century. This book provides an extensive review of the psychological studies of social dilemmas, discusses how psychological perspectives are related to research in other fields of social and biological sciences, and contributes to the development of a more integrated understanding of humans as a cooperative species. Written in a friendly style for general readership, this book serves as a good textbook for students as well as a resource book for researchers in both psychology and other social science fields." --Toshio Yamagishi, Professor of Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Japan "The first four [chapters] provide a wealth of material showing how the empirical study of social dilemmas has emancipated itself from its game-theoretic foundations while acknowledging the historical debt owed to the mathematicians and their continued capacity to inspire. This fruitful collaboration between the scientists who study [humans] is an excellent example [of how] are highly cooperative a species [we] are." --Joachim I. Krueger, American Journal of Psychology
Book Information
ISBN 9780199897612
Author Paul Van Lange
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 465g
Dimensions(mm) 163mm * 239mm * 25mm